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Definition of Pall-mall
1. Noun. A 17th century game; a wooden ball was driven along an alley with a mallet.
Medical Definition of Pall-mall
1. A game formerly common in England, in which a wooden ball was driven with a mallet through an elevated hoop or ring of iron. The name was also given to the mallet used, to the place where the game was played, and to the street, in London, still called Pall Mall. Alternative forms: pail-mail and pell-mell. Origin: OF. Palemail, It. Pallamagio; palla a ball (of German origin, akin to E. Ball) + magio hammer, fr. L. Malleus. See lst Ball, and Mall a beetle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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Literary usage of Pall-mall
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. London and Its Environs: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1908)
"Pall Mall and Piccadilly. Waterloo Place. York Column. ... Dodsley, the publisher,
carried on business in Pall Mall under the sign of "Tully's Head', ..."
2. The Contemporary Review (1868)
"MY DEAR SIR,—Bungay will be J- • here to-day about tlie Pall Mall Gazette.
You will be the very man to help us with a genuine West-end article. ..."
3. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"Pall Mall was not, with the few exceptions indicated above, inhabited by " the
... With such attractions Pall Mall could not fail to become a favourite ..."
4. Arrows of the Chace: Being a Collection of Scattered Letters Published by John Ruskin (1880)
"The Pall Mall Gazette, Jan. 19, 1871 The Times, January 24, 1871 The Daily
Telegraph, Feb. ... The Catalogue to the Exhibition, 1872 . The Pall Mall ..."
5. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1881)
"Golf was a favourite game at the same time that pall mall was most popular, ...
Here golf is said to resemble pall mall, and although neither mallets nor ..."
6. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1898)
"THE "PALL MALL GAZETTE.'' ONSIDERABLE success at first attended the new journal.
... That there may have been some dealings between the " Pall Mall Gazette" ..."
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